Senior Software Security Engineer

Location: Dublin,Ireland

Department: Engineering

Work Location: hybrid

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

Dolby is a global leader in providing audio and imaging solutions that create spectacular experiences on a range of diverse hardware and software platforms. Our technologies are deployed to millions of devices worldwide. As such, Dolby technology is exposed to non-licensed use which includes, but is not limited to, software piracy and intellectual property (IP) thievery. At the same time, our technologies may be used as an attack vector for breaking into our customers devices by exploiting existing SW vulnerabilities.

You will be part of a team responsible for creating solutions to protect Dolby’s IP as well as minimize exploitable vulnerabilities in Dolby products. Acting as a Senior Security Engineer you will shape Dolby product security in many ways.

Essential Job Functions

• Contribute to Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment for various Dolby products from both IP security and vulnerability standpoint.
• Implement, verify, and validate IP protection mechanisms.
• Perform exploitability research of discovered vulnerabilities.
• Work swiftly in embedded environment at the verge of operating system, applications and hardware.

Required Education & Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience in software security domain.
• Proficiency in C++, C and Python programming.
• Professional experience with at least one cryptographic implementation (e.g. crypto++, mbedTLS, openSSL, etc.).
• Solid understanding of secure processing and Trusted Execution Environments (TEE).
• Hands-on experience in SW reverse engineering.
• Solid understanding of executable binary formats and their internals.
• Solid understanding of SW vulnerabilities and their exploitation methods (buffer overflows, use-after-free, etc.).
• Solid understanding of operating systems internals.
• Solid handling of disassemblers/decompilers, debuggers, emulators, virtual machines. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good command of English (written and spoken).
• Nice to have: CTF player, security research, DIY electronics/robotics.

Dolby Hiring Entity:

77 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Block C
Grand Canal Docklands
Dublin D02 VK60
Ireland